The present invention relates to a carrier recovery means in particular in a
channel decoding unit or a digital demodulating unit of a digital broadcasting
receiver. The inventive carrier recovery means comprises at least first and second
phase error detecting means (2, 4) in which the first phase error detecting
means (2) generates a robust phase error signal based on a digital input
signal. Said second phase error detecting means (4) receives said robust
phase error signal and generates therefrom a frequency sensitive phase error signal
which is representative for the frequency error or frequency offset between the
frequency of the receiver and the frequency of the carrier of the received digital
input signal. The frequency sensitive phase error signal is then used to reduce
at least the frequency error with respect to the received digital input signal
to enable locking of the receiver to the carrier of the digital signal.
